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| Artist J.Bayarjargal (2nd from right) with her final student art project. |
Mongolian Christian artist J.Bayarjargal is a recent art school graduate from the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture in Ulaanbaatar. For her final project she created a series of seven leather disks based on the days of creation (and the first Sabbath) found in Genesis.
Bayarjargal has been a follower of Christ since 2006. For her final art project, she wanted to create something that was a testimony to her professors about her faith in God's Son. She says, "There is only one inspiration for my artwork [and] that is God and His mighty work that He has done for us." She chose leather as her medium because her brother, who is also an artist, had previously worked with leather.
The round shape of Bayarjargal's leather pieces represents God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. She reinforces the idea of God's unchanging nature through the use of three colors throughout the seven disks: red, yellow and blue. These are also the colors of the Mongolian flag. Bayarjargal writes that red represents strength, decisiveness and power; blue signifies the eternal blue sky, with the different shades of blue in the leather disks symbolizing "the limitlessness of God in all areas." Yellow equals clarity and light. Using the same palette throughout the seven discs indicates that "everything [is] connected [and] related to one another [because of] the way He created them."
